Language Practitioner: Sign Language
DEPARTMENT OF SPORT, ARTS, CULTURE AND RECREATION
Overview
Interpreting during official sessions. Prepare and conduct research on the topic and the type of audience.
Requirements
- The successful candidate should have a Grade 12 Certificate
- A 3-year tertiary qualification (NQF Level 6/7) in Languages or equivalent qualification with one of the relevant languages as major subject
- A minimum of 3 Years’ Experience
- An experience in language Development programs and Translations will be an added advantage
- PFMA, Legislation, prescript, Skills: Research, Administration, planning and organization, problem solving, formulating and editing, facilitation, interpersonal r elationship
- Analytical thinking, Maintain discipline, project management, reporting, Policy development and analysis, supervising, budgeting, financial management, conflict management, verbal and written communication and leadership and computer literacy
Responsibilities
- Interpreting during official sessions
- Prepare and conduct research on the topic and the type of audience
- Provide simultaneous and consecutive interpreting
- Edit document
- Submit edited documents to the supervisor for quality assurance
- Discuss and effect changes proposed by supervisor
- Record new terminology/ language problems with possible solutions for future reference
- Record and file edited documents
- Conduct research and provide professional advice and support to interpreters and clients
- Participate in the development of language awareness campaigns
- Undertake language awareness campaigns
- Develop, populate and maintain sign language databases
- Undertake research on new sign language developments
- Coordinate and conduct literature writing workshops
- Facilitate literature writing competitions
- Establish and support reading and debating clubs
- Provide guidance to budding (emerging) writers and act as a link between the writers and publishers
- Editing documents of newly coined terms
- Develop and maintain database on projects and programmes with regard language issues
- Provide administrative and technical support regarding language programmes
- Monitoring the implementation of approved sign language programmes
How to apply
Application instructions from the official source
must be online at https://jobs.gauteng.gov.za or emailed to: [email protected]
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Enquiries
Recruitment enquiries
Ms. Cynthia Mabaso Tel No: (011) 355 2714 / 071 853 3669
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